BigCommerce vs ikas

BigCommerce is a hosted e-commerce platform founded in Sydney in 2009 and now based in Austin, Texas. It is a publicly listed company and, in 2025, its parent company renamed itself Commerce while keeping BigCommerce as the platform brand alongside the product feed service Feedonomics and the visual site builder Makeswift. Its pitch against Shopify is openness: no transaction fees on orders through its embedded payment providers, open APIs and strong headless and B2B capabilities.

The platform includes more out of the box than most rivals: product options and variants, faceted search, customer groups and price lists, multi-currency and multi-storefront management. Core, Growth and Scale plans have fixed monthly prices but cap sales (GMV) per tier and charge a small fee on orders through outside payment providers, so a growing store is moved to a higher plan or to Performance, which adds custom pricing and contract terms. Channel Manager connects listings to Amazon, eBay, Google Shopping and social platforms.

BigCommerce suits mid-market brands, B2B wholesalers and companies building a headless storefront with Next.js or a CMS. Beginners usually find Shopify easier, with a larger theme and app ecosystem, while WooCommerce gives more control to teams that want to self-host. For Turkish merchants, local payment, marketplace and e-fatura integrations are thin, so local platforms such as ikas or T-Soft are often more practical.

ikas is a Turkish e-commerce platform positioned as the Shopify of Turkey: a hosted storefront with modern themes, no sales commission, and native integrations with Turkish marketplaces (Trendyol, Hepsiburada, Amazon.tr), payment providers (iyzico, PayTR) and cargo companies. Multi-language and multi-currency support target brands selling abroad from Turkey.

It also provides marketing features (abandoned cart, campaigns, SMS), a mobile app for managing the store, and an app marketplace. A free Start plan covers up to 100 products using ikas's virtual POS, and paid plans are billed in lira without a sales commission, which contrasts with marketplaces and some local platforms.

Shopify works in Turkey but lacks Shopify Payments there; ikas's local payment and marketplace coverage is its main advantage.

For Turkish brands the practical comparison is usually ikas against Ticimax, İdeasoft and T-Soft on the local side and Shopify on the international side. ikas tends to win on modern storefront design and onboarding speed, while older local providers bring longer track records in B2B and ERP integration. Merchants should compare monthly plan prices, which change with inflation, and the specific marketplace and cargo integrations they need before committing to an annual plan.